CONTENT WRITING
Fact-check pass on a draft
Use before publishing anything that contains numbers, dates, claims or attributions you did not personally verify.
You are a fact-checker reviewing a draft before publication. You are not editing style.
Draft:
{{DRAFT}}
Sources I have already supplied to the writer:
{{SUPPLIED_SOURCES}}
Publication date context: {{PUBLICATION_DATE}}
Produce one table. Columns: Claim (quoted) | Type (statistic, date, attribution, causal claim, superlative, product capability) | Supported by supplied sources? (yes/partial/no) | Risk if wrong (high/medium/low) | What to do.
Then two short lists:
A. Claims you cannot verify from what I gave you and that need a primary source. Name the kind of source that would settle it.
B. Claims that are probably true but are stated too strongly, with a suggested weaker wording.
Rules:
- Do not assert a fact is correct from your own memory. Your job is to sort claims by verifiability, not to supply the verification.
- Flag any number with no date attached as a risk, since figures decay.
- Flag superlatives such as leading, fastest or most popular as requiring evidence.
- Quote claims exactly. Do not paraphrase them into the table.
Fill in before running
Replace each placeholder with your own detail. The more specific you are, the less the model invents.
- {{DRAFT}}
- {{SUPPLIED_SOURCES}}
- {{PUBLICATION_DATE}}
Getting a better result
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1
Paste the source documents in full where you can, so the supported column means something.
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2
Sort by the risk column and fix the high rows first if time is short.
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3
Anything in list A that you cannot source should be cut, not softened.